Devotion by Katsy Pline

‘Devotion’ is a record of ambient country music assembled from B-bender guitar, electronics, synthesizers and saxophone. Largely eschewing harmonic development in favor of oceanic feeling, the record stretches the swirling unconscious yearning of heartbreak country into glacial shapes, starlit and blue.

Surrounded by noise and always threatening to collapse into formlessness, the songs meander thru the valley of the moon, searching for the clearing and a felt sense of the potential for something unimaginable to emerge. Think Clarence White, baptized in the black flame, on a heavy dose of ascetic noise and wilderness wandering. It is a love letter to the anarchic experimental guitar and synthesizer music of the Bay, recast in the melancholic sweep of California countrypolitan. Latex ambient, high desert drone, moonlight noise— ‘So also it is written: Our God is a consuming fire. Hence we ought to light the divine fire in ourselves with labour and with tears.’

Katsy Pline is a singer and guitarist living in Berkeley, CA